Corporate event on Globally Responsible Leadership

September 20, 15h – 16h – Room: Studio 11

Are you a responsible leader or willing to become one of them?

Are you an active citizen concerned about the health of our planet and society?

Then this corporate event will be of interest for you!

Three leaders have accepted to discuss about globally responsible leadership with LSM students:

What global challenges future leaders will be confronted with?
How do companies and their leaders contribute to the sustainable development goals?
What are the skills of a responsible leader?
What do you think about the creation of a major in Sustainability in a management school like LSM ? Does it match the expectations from the corporate world? Is it a specialized niche area or providing the skills that are essential for future business leaders in tomorrow society ?

Let’s come and discuss those issues with:

Sonia Bonus, Sustainability Manager
Danone

As Sustainability Manager at Danone, Sonia Bonus is in charge of integrating sustainability topics at corporate level in Benelux. Her role is to coordinate local CSR projects and to embark internal and external stakeholders into the Danone Manifesto which embeds the dual project, the mission to bring health through food and the 4 sustainability commitments: better health by encouraging healthy food and healthy lifestyle, better lives by creating social values for those we are working for or with, better world for a healthy planet by fighting climate, preserving water cycle, promoting sustainable agriculture and developing responsible packaging, through co-creation of projects with partners (unique business approach).
Before that, she has been working 8 years in an environmental NGO (WWF) where she developed new partnership strategies (from charity business to business engagement) to engage Belgian companies to reduce their impact on the environment and to change behavior of their staff and their consumers for a living planet.
For her, a responsible leader engages in sustainability to combine economic growth with positive impact on the society so there is a better future for the next generations.

Hugues Ronsse, Sustainability Manager
Iba

Hugues Ronsse is Sustainability Program Director et IBA (Ion Beam Application SA, Louvain-la-Neuve). He graduated in 1997 from the UCL, Louvain School of Management, with a Master degree in Management. He spent most of his career at IBA, since 2003, and had different functions in the Supply Chain department. In 2005, he was graduated with an Executive Master in Supply Chain Management, UCL, LSM.

He is a fellow of the LSM and he collaborates frequently, contributing to LSM courses and conferences on Supply Chain topics. Since 2 years, he has developed the Sustainability vision and program at IBA. IBA is developing and providing medical application based on particle accelerators. Its mission is to Protect, Enhance & Save Lives, with a focus on the fight against cancer, using its leading edge technologies in the field of Proton Therapy.

Christian Legrain, General Secretary
SCK.CEN

Business engineer from UCL, Christian Legrain started his career as an assistant at the Institute of Administration and Management at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). After several years, he was involved in the creation of a company which developed specific integrated circuits and grew from 0 to 65 employees within the space of a few years. The company was incorporated into Alcatel Bell Telephone, today Thales-Alenia Space. He then worked on the restructuring of an industrial electronics company, a family business with an international calling and a workforce of more or less 250 people. Since 1993 he is employed at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol where he is Secretary General, Director of the Institute for Corporate, General Services and Administration and member of the Management Committee. In addition to the operational tasks, he is responsible for aspects of communication with the political & economical world and the media. He is also member of the board of the BNLA (Brussels Nuclear Law Association), ELINI (European Liability Insurance for the Nuclear Industry) and recently DoseVue, a spin-off of the SCK•CEN.

Boelen

Johan Boelen, Chief of Staff Private Banking & Wealth Management

BNP Paribas

Johan Boelen studied Bachelor in Economics at the University of Hasselt. In 2015 Johan developed a new SRI (Sustainable Responsible Investment) program which was successfully implemented at BNP Paribas Fortis. This approach resulted in a new SRI advisory approach to the clients of BNP Paribas Fortis and which is innovative on the Belgian market. In 2016 he created a cooperation between BNPPF and the King Baudouin foundation to leverage on the social and philanthropic aspects of SRI investments. Actually Johan is developing a dedicated CSR program for senior executives together with the University of Cambridge (UK) and a SDG training for Women entrepreneurs.